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07-SEPTEMBER-2008 03:17:44 - nutrient Redirected from Essential nutrients Food portal An essential nutrient is a nutrient required for normal body functioning that cannot be synthesized by the body and must be obtained from a dietary source. Some categories of essential nutrient include vitamins, dietary minerals, essential fatty acids, and essential amino acids. Different species have very different essential nutrients. Most essential nutrients are substances that are metabolically necessary but cannot be synthesized by the organism. Dietary minerals, for example, cannot be synthesized in biological systems, so for example a human must obtain the iron they need to build hemoglobin from their diet. Of course, this iron is recycled, but some is inevitably lost, for example during menstruation. Many essential nutrients are toxic in large doses see hypervitaminosis or the nutrient pages themselves below. Some can be taken in amounts larger than required in a typical diet, with no apparent ill effects. Linus Pauling said of vitamin B3, either niacin or niacinamide, What astonished me was the very low toxicity of a substance that has such very great physiological power. A little pinch, 5 mg, every day, is enough to keep a person from dying of pellagra, but it is so lacking in toxicity that ten thousand times as much can sometimes be taken without harm. 1 A similar statement can be made about vitamin C and some other vitamins. Contents 1 List of essential nutrients 2 Elements with speculated role in human health 3 References 4 Further reading 5 See also List of essential nutrients Essential human requirements usually not considered to be nutrients: Oxygen Water Sunlight for synthesis of Vitamin D Essential fatty acids: Linolenic acid the shortest chain omega-3 fatty acid Linoleic acid the shortest chain omega-6 fatty acid Essential amino acids necessary for all humans: Histidine Isoleucine Lysine Leucine Methionine Phenylalanine Threonine Tryptophan Valine Essential amino acids necessary for human children and not adults: Arginine Vitamins: Biotin vitamin B7, vitamin H Choline vitamin Bp Folate folic acid, vitamin B9, vitamin M Niacin vitamin B3, vitamin P, vitamin PP Pantothenic acid vitamin B5 Riboflavin vitamin B2, vitamin G Thiamine vitamin B1 Vitamin A retinol Vitamin B6 pyridoxine, pyridoxamine, or pyridoxal Vitamin B12 cobalamin Vitamin C ascorbic acid Vitamin D ergocalciferol, or cholecalciferol Vitamin E tocopherol Vitamin K naphthoquinoids Dietary minerals2 See also: dietary minerals Calcium Ca Chlorine Cl Cobalt Co as part of Vitamin B-12 Copper Cu 3 Iodine I Iron Fe Magnesium Mg Manganese Mn 4 Molybdenum Mo Nickel Ni5 Phosphorus P6 Potassium K Selenium Se 7 Sodium Na Sulfur S numerous roles8 Zinc Zn 9 The body's requirements vary widely. At one extreme a 70 kg human contains 1.0 kg of calcium but only 3 mg of cobalt.10 Elements with speculated role in human health Many elements have been implicated at various times to have a role in human health. For none of these elements has a specific protein or complex been identified: Boron B Chromium Cr5 See chromium deficiency Silicon Si5 References ^ Pauling, L. 1986. How to Live Longer and Feel Better. New York NY 10019: Avon Books Inc.. ISBN 0-380-70289-4. Page 24. ^ R. Bruce Martin Metal Ion Toxicity in Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry, Robert H. Crabtree Ed, John Wiley Sons, 2006. DOI: 10.1002/0470862106.ia136 ^ Hausman, p. 467 ^ Hausman, p. 469 ^ a b c Mertz, W. 1974. The newer essential trace elements, chromium, tin, vanadium, nickel and silicon. Proc. Nutr. Soc. 33 p. 307. ^ Hausman, p. 470 ^ Hausman, p. 432 ^ Nelson, D. L.; Cox, M. M. Lehninger, Principles of Biochemistry 3rd Ed. Worth Publishing: New York, 2000. ISBN 1-57259-153-6. ^ Hausman, p. 395 ^ Elemental Composition of the Body Further reading Hausman, P, 1987, The Right Dose. Rodale Press, Emaus, Pennsylvania. ISBN 0-87857-678-9 See also Avitaminosis vitamin deficiency Dietary Reference Intake Dietary supplement Illnesses related to poor nutrition Malnutrition Orthomolecular medicine Vitamin poisoning Health freedom movement Retrieved from http://en..org/wiki/Essential_nutrient Categories: Essential nutrients | Nutrition Views Article Discussion this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Search Go Search Interaction Community portal Recent changes Contact Donate to Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this page Languages Català Dansk Deutsch Español Français Galego Hrvatski עברית Nederlands Português This page was last modified on 20 August 2008, at 18:16
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